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The Two Bronze Columns(A)

15 The king had two columns made, each one 52 feet tall, and placed them in front of the Temple. Each one had a capital 7½ feet tall. 16 The tops of the columns were decorated with a design of interwoven chains and one hundred bronze pomegranates.[a] 17 The columns were set at the sides of the Temple entrance: the one on the south side was named Jachin[b] and the one on the north side was named Boaz.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:16 Verse 16 in Hebrew is unclear.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:17 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “he (God) establishes.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:17 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “by his (God's) strength.”

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